I still see pubs promoting "happy hours" which I thought were going to be stopped? Two brothers that I once worked with continued drinking in excess, even though their dad and a brother had died of alcoholism. Sadly, another one died some two years ago.

I still see pubs promoting "happy hours" which I thought were going to be stopped? Two brothers that I once worked with continued drinking in excess, even though their dad and a brother had died of alcoholism. Sadly, another one died some two years ago.

Passed one in Preston last week advertising it's happy hour as"9 - 11 am"and can confirm it was doing a roaring trade at 10is.

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

Education not prohibition is the answer for me. I like drinking and probably drink too much, I'm an amiable drunk (as Mr T-Dub will agree) but I'm aware of what I'm doing and what the possible consequences are.

Leave me alone to get on with what I enjoy doing

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

Education not prohibition is the answer for me. I like drinking and probably drink too much, I'm an amiable drunk (as Mr T-Dub will agree) but I'm aware of what I'm doing and what the possible consequences are.

Education campaigns and the like about alcohol have been running for years but the drinking rates have gone up, violence and crime linked to alcohol has gone up and the burden on the health services as a result of alcohol has gone up.

Education campaigns and the like about alcohol have been running for years but the drinking rates have gone up, violence and crime linked to alcohol has gone up and the burden on the health services as a result of alcohol has gone up.

Perception or proof?

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin